Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 4. The Gospel of Mark introduces us to the person of Jesus with these words. 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The book begins with a truth claim about the identity of Jesus…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark. We will begin reading with verse 31 and we will read just through verse 35. The Gospel of Mark often uses literary devices to make theological points. Mark has arranged his gospel thematically in such a way that…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 3. We will begin reading in verse 20 and we will read all the way down to verse 35. 20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it,…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark. We will begin reading in chapter 2:18-22. This morning we turn our attention to the third of five controversial moments that Mark strings together one right after the other. There is a tension that is building…

Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Mark chapter 2. We will begin reading in verse 13 here in just a moment. Last week we studied the first of five back to back passages which involve some sort of controversy between Jesus and the religious elite of…